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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 May 2015, 23:59 UTC/GMT

More and more computer graphics is transforming from a field that was mainly driven by the needs of the movie and video game industry to a technology that can help to solve basic, yet challenging problems for a much broader range of industries.

Today, computer graphics technology is supporting the development of real products, for example by providing tools for accurate product visualization or methods for shape optimization. Being originally rooted in the visual effects and game industry computer graphics offers a unique blend between creativity and broad and deep expertise at the interface between math, physics, art and computer science. With this background it is perfectly suited to become a leader of the virtual prototyping and mass customization revolution that, in the era of the cloud and 3D printing, will fundamentally change the way how things are designed and made.

For more than 30 years SIGGRAPH Courses have been the premier source for practitioners, developers, researchers, artists, and students who want to learn about the state-of-the-art in computer graphics and related topics. At SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 hundreds of visitors will attend its courses to broaden and deepen their knowledge and to learn the secrets of new directions.

Special encouragement for proposals on hands-on courses (see below). If you are considering such proposals, please contact us prior to the submission deadline to discuss suitability and special arrangements needed.

We no longer accept proposals for full-day courses.

Courses usually fall into one of the following categories:

Introductory

An introduction to a topic, suitable for attendees with little or no background in that area. These courses can range from basic topics through more advanced concepts. The important criterion for this type of course is that it should guide attendees through the material in a sensible way and not assume much prior knowledge in that specific topic.

An introduction to an area that is related to computer graphics but is not considered "core" graphics. In this case, in addition to the points outlined above, the materials must clearly demonstrate how computer graphics researchers and professionals would benefit from the information in the course.

State-of-the-art: Best practices and state-of-the-art methodologies for computer graphics professionals. These are advanced courses presenting the best the field can offer to professionals in a specific subfield.

New trends: Consolidation of a new and emerging research trend. This type of course can guide new researchers in the area and help facilitate transfers to practical applications.

Hands-on: A course that provides opportunities for attendees to learn by doing, through the industry's most-popular technologies. They are intended for a limited audience on a first-come, first-served basis.

While we provide the basic guidelines for the different educational roles above, we believe that the presentation should be tailored to the specific topic and its relevance to the attendees. Therefore, if you feel that your course does not fit the above options, please contact us and we will be happy to provide suggestions and feedback.

Proposals for courses that have been presented at previous SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia conferences are welcome. However, they must explain why the course should be repeated. Please refer to the FAQs for details.

Topics

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 has special focuses on appearance modeling, capture and fabrication, mobile web and cloud applications, design and manufacturing, real-time graphics and interactive technologies as well as Asia-centric topics. We encourage submission of course proposals that deal with:

Real-time computer graphics for games and interactive content

Digital content creation for games, films, GIS, and maps

Graphics models and methods for the visualization of large-scale datasets

Interactive graphics techniques and HCI

3D printing and fabrication

Appearance capture, measured materials and applications

Recent advances in appearance modeling

Graphics techniques and applications for mobile devices and next-gen cloud-based web applications, topics at the interface between art and computer graphics

Visual prototyping

Big data and graphics applications

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 attendees are local and international, established industry professionals, students, professors, researchers, engineers, producers. Their expectations are diverse, and we are looking for outstanding courses, at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, on ACM SIGGRAPH's most popular and fundamental topics, including (but not limited to):

Computer animation

Visual effects techniques

Graphics hardware and GPU computing

Digital geometry processing

Physically based rendering

Simulating living creatures and natural phenomena

Computational photography and image manipulation

Computer vision and machine learning

Virtual and augmented reality

And any other hot emerging topic that you want to get people excited about!

Format

Courses are presented in Two Basic Formats:

Short (1 hour and 45 minutes); We recommend one lecturer for a Short Course

Half-Day (3 hours and 45 minutes including one 15-minute break); We recommend two or three lecturers for a Half-Day Course.

Language

The official language of SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 is English. Verbal presentations, slide presentations, and course notes are expected to be in English. In addition, we plan to also provide special Japanese sessions. So please contact us if you consider presenting in Japanese.

The deadline for submission to the Courses program is 10 May 2015, 23:59 UTC/GMT. Please return to this page often for further submission details and use the contact form if you have any questions.

How To Submit

Use these instructions to ensure that your submission is complete and that it meets all applicable program requirements: Emerging Technologies proposals must be submitted electronically via the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 online submission system. No other method of submission will be accepted. Fax submissions are not accepted. Only the files and supporting material uploaded through the submission system will be considered for review.

Please review and carefully follow the submission requirements below. Incomplete or wrongly completed submissions will not be considered. When you begin the form, your submission will be assigned with submission identification (ID) number that will be used to identify your submission throughout the review process. You can modify the form up until the deadline. If required information is missing, your form will be marked Incomplete. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed or accepted.

We strongly encourage starting the submission form well before the deadline. Submit your work before the submission deadline 10 May 2015, 23:59 UTC/GMT. All forms must be completed, and all materials must be successfully uploaded by that time. The submission deadline will be strictly enforced. Please do not wait until the last minute to upload your files.

For more information about uploading files for your submission, please see Uploading Files

Submission Form

Basic information about your submission (page 1)

Permissions (page 2) and presentation format (page 3).

Additional submission information, including lecturer names, affiliations, and contact information, as well as title of the course, and a single-sentence summary (50 words or fewer).

Course Description, Syllabus/Schedule including duration of topic sections and lecturers.

Length of the course: short (1 hour and 45 minutes) and half-day (3 hours and 45 minutes including one 15-minute break).

Intended audience, prerequisites, and level of difficulty.

Bio Form. Please provide short bios for each of your lecturers or panelists.. We recommend one lecturer for a short course and two lecturers for a half-day course.

Sample of Course Notes. This is an outline of materials and a representative sample of the type of Course Notes that you plan to provide if your course is accepted. The review sample need not be long or complete, but it should be clear and concise, and it should demonstrate the expected quality of the learning materials that will be available during and after the conference.Course Notes ExamplesFormatting Guidelines

Special presentation requirements, if any.

Submission categories and keywords to help ensure your submission is reviewed and juried appropriately.

Optional: You may also provide examples of other materials, demonstrations, or exercises that support the course topics.

Please note: All entries must be uploaded to the online submission system. No discs or drives will be accepted.

Educator's Resources Submission option

Those submitting content to a SIGGRAPH conference have the option of donating materials of educational value to ACM SIGGRAPH online resources for the benefit of the education community. Learn more.

For more information about uploading files for your submission, please see Uploading Files.

Evaluation

Courses can fulfill many educational roles:

Introducing a core graphics area, suitable for someone with little background in that area. These can cover various topics, ranging from introductory to advance. The jury evaluates these based on if they believe the course will guide an attendee through the material in a sensible way.

Introducing a topic related to graphics but not considered "core" graphics. The jury evaluates these courses based on the expected benefit of the knowledge to a typical SIGGRAPH Asia attendee.

Consolidating a new and emerging research trend. The jury evaluates these courses based on their potential to facilitate knowledge transfer for practical applications and guide new researchers in the area.

Well-attended, strong courses may be re-submitted in subsequent years. Recently taught courses must provide justification for why the course should be repeated. Courses taught longer ago should explain why the material should be revisited, and what new advancements will be covered. Introductory courses have the potential to be repeated more frequently than advanced ones, as the potential audience is larger.

Jurors are asked to evaluate your submission using four criteria: Concept, Novelty, Interest, and Quality. The final submission score is based on a combination of these factors. For example, a submission that is high quality, has broad appeal, and contains something new is likely to be accepted, while a submission that is incremental, of interest to only a small number of people, and poorly written will probably be rejected.

Concept

How exceptional are the ideas, problems, solutions, aesthetics, etc. presented in this submission? How coherently does the submission convey its overall concept? Is the concept similar to existing ones, or does it stand out?

Novelty

How new and fresh is this work? Is it a new, ground-breaking approach to an old problem, or is it an existing approach with a slightly new twist? You must demonstrate to the jury that your course is sufficiently different from other approaches to the topic.

Interest

Will conference attendees want to attend this course? Will it inspire them? Does it appeal to a broad audience? This is partly a measure of how broad the potential audience is and partly a measure of the overall clarity and novelty of the proposal.

Quality, Craft, and Completeness

This is a measure of the course proposal's quality of expression, clarity of thinking, and how clearly and completely it explains the course and its intentions. It also measures the quality and completeness of the supporting materials.

Materials narrowly cover an area, without sufficient justification. A course should provide a comprehensive overview, and not just focus (for instance) on the presenter's own techniques or methods used in a particular company.

Previous courses have sufficiently covered the area, or the jury feels the topic is too narrow to attract sufficient attendance at SIGGRAPH Asia.

Notice To Contributors

All contributors to SIGGRAPH Asia Annual Conferences are now required to use ACM's rights management system to grant rights to publish accepted content rather than through the online submission system. Essentially, submission tracking, jury review, and acceptance remain the same, but now the rights management is through ACM, the parent organization of SIGGRAPH Asia.

You will be asked to complete an ACM rights management form, which includes permission to record and distribute the audio and video of your recorded presentation through official channels of ACM/SIGGRAPH Asia. For most content types, this will be a Permission and Release form, which allows authors to retain copyright.

If you are using copyrighted musical compositions in your presentation, you must secure performing rights licenses.

You must have the authority to grant ACM the right to distribute your presentation.

Once your contribution is accepted, you will receive a link via email to the appropriate form for your contribution.

Upon Acceptance

Detailed information and instructions as well as deadlines will be sent to submitters along with the acceptance letter.

You will be notified of acceptance or rejection in mid July 2015.

After acceptance, the SIGGRAPH Asia Information System will allow you to update basic information about your work and upload any final materials for inclusion on the conference program and web site. This information needs to be finalized four weeks after acceptance.

Be prepared to deliver your final versions of your work before these dates, or your acceptance may be rescinded.

A final course timeline listing the topics and speakers in chronological order

The time and location of your course will be posted on the SIGGRAPH Asia website well in advance of the conference.

Some registration and travel costs to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 may be at your own expense; each accepted course receives recognition as specified in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Recognition Policy.

Publication

All accepted work will be documented in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 website and distributed through the ACM Digital Library.

Presenter and Contributor Recognition

Please see the Recognition Policy for a summary of what you will receive if your work and/or proposal are accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2015.

Presenters are expected to cover their own travel costs, which are not covered by SIGGRAPH Asia 2015.

You can apply for a 100% discount for up to one presenter per half-day course or per short course via the submission system. One presenter per half-day course, and one presenter per short course can apply for travel reimbursement of up to USD $1,000. Only presenters whose permanent residence is outside of Kobe, Japan can apply for travel reimbursement.

Once your contribution is accepted, you will receive a link via email to the appropriate form for your contribution. You will be required to prepare the final print-ready file following the specifications in the acceptance notification.

Other Details

You will be able to update your basic submission information so that it can be included in the conference program and website. This information needs to be finalized two weeks after acceptance.

If your work is accepted, you will be required to prepare the final print-ready file following the specifications in the acceptance notification.

Please note: The schedule to provide your final material after receiving the acceptance notification is very tight. Please plan your personal schedule accordingly.

For instructions about preparation and delivery of your final content for publications, please carefully follow the instructions in the acceptance letter.

You will be able to update your basic submission information and any final materials so that it can be included in the conference program and web site. This information needs to be finalized two weeks after receipt of acceptance notifications. Please be prepared to deliver your final versions of your information and work on or before these dates.

FAQs

Deadlines

Can I submit after the deadline?

No. The deadlines are absolute. All submissions receive equal consideration up to the published deadline. Please respect other contributors and allow time for unforeseen circumstances in your submission, including (but not limited to) network connectivity, equipment failures, job impacts, life or family events, etc. These are outside of SIGGRAPH Asia 2015's direct control and cannot be accommodated fairly.

Why is this so absolute?

Firstly, the answer is fairness and equal opportunity for consideration. This respects the contribution process for all submissions. Secondly, the deadline was set as late as possible while still allowing sufficient time for quality review, production, and delivery at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015. Immediately after the submission deadline, we start processing and reviewing the submissions on a very tight time schedule, and we cannot accommodate exceptions.

How will SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 address server-side network failures?

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 is only responsible for the availability of the submission server. If necessary, the conference chair will authorize an appropriate adjustment (and will prominently post notices at several locations online). All other network failures between your location and the SIGGRAPH Asia server will not affect the submission deadlines. Please submit early to avoid connectivity-support problems or last-minute submission-server performance issues.

The SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 English Review Service failed our schedule, so it is SIGGRAPH Asia's fault that our proposal is late. Can I have an extension?

No. The English Review Service makes no guarantee for service turn-around. It is also administered separately from the conference program. Please schedule your work appropriately. For the best chance of having your submission reviewed by the English Review Service, please make sure it is submitted and marked "complete" in the submission system at least 14 days before your program's submission deadline.

Nature of Content

My company sells educational software. Can we make a sales presentation?

No. The exhibition is the best place for that.

I have a great idea for a presentation, but I am not sure if it is appropriate (too basic, advanced, fuzzy, etc.) for SIGGRAPH Asia 2015.

Please send it in and let the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 jury make the decision.

Can my company have a dedicated session in which we present a collection of talks about various aspects of a large project?

Possibly. You are welcome to submit a collection of related submissions. However, the scheduling and grouping of accepted material will ultimately be decided by the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 committee.

My company has a great new product that is of general interest to the SIGGRAPH Asia community. Can I submit an abstract about it?

A simple product announcement or sales pitch would not be appropriate for the conference program. However, a methods or systems description that presents the engineering design and algorithms behind the product could be appropriate. If you are an exhibitor, and you are interested in a presentation on all aspects of your new product, please contact Exhibition Management about organizing an Exhibitor Talk.

English is not my first language. Can I submit and present in another language?

No, but ACM SIGGRAPH's International Committee can provide some help with English. Please see the English Review Service.

I am a sixth-grade teacher, not an expert in computer graphics or interactive techniques, but I have designed something using computer graphics software, interactive techniques, games, etc. that really helps my math, English, dance, etc. students. Should I submit it?

Yes. SIGGRAPH Asia educators are very interested in how new techniques can be used for pedagogical purposes. Submissions in this area that have the best chance for acceptance demonstrate clearly how learning is improved with computer graphics or interactive techniques.

Why is it necessary to specify an intended audience for a course? The intended audience should be the average SIGGRAPH Asia conference attendee, no?

No. The attendee population is very diverse. Your detailed audience identification helps both proposal evaluation by the review committee (program balancing) and proper marketing to interested conference attendees.

We have a great idea for an educational session on an unusual topic. Should we submit it?

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 seeks innovation both in topic and presentation! New ideas that relate to some aspect of computer graphics and interactive techniques are most welcome. Your proposal should clearly explain this relevance.

Should all submissions be prepared anonymously, like Technical Papers?

No. The review process is single blind, which means the reviewers will know who the authors are, but the authors will not know who the reviewers are. Your submission should be as close to its final form as possible (see Completeness, Work in Progress), including the names of all collaborators on the work and their institutions. Potential conflicts of interest are taken into account when submissions are assigned to reviewers.

Completeness, Work in Progress

Are partial or incomplete submissions considered?

Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. Contributors are required to minimally meet all submission requirements by the published deadline. The jury will evaluate the merit of each completed proposal as it was submitted at the deadline, even if it does not meet the author's personal quality objectives. Please allow enough time to meet your own quality goals.

Work Submitted Elsewhere

Can I submit work that I have published or presented, or has been accepted for publication or presentation, elsewhere?

Yes, though with some caveats. First, you must indicate the prior appearance via the checkbox on the submission form and provide a description of how and where the work appeared. Second, be aware that SIGGRAPH Asia attendees expect to see things they have never seen before. The jury will decide if the novelty and impact of the submission warrant acceptance despite its appearance elsewhere.

Can I submit work to SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 and also submit a more complete description to other conferences (for example EGSR, SGP, or SCA) while the submission is still in review?

The other conference or journal is likely to consider this an unacceptable "dual submission", so you must check with them. If they are OK with it, SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 is OK with it. But if you intend to submit this work elsewhere before the conference, you must indicate this intent via the checkbox on the submission form and provide a description of where you intend to submit and when it would appear.

Can I submit work that was presented at a previous SIGGRAPH conference?

The submission form has a checkbox that requires you to indicate this fact. The jury will decide if the novelty of the submission warrants acceptance regardless of prior presentation or publication. Courses may remain valuable from year to year and will be considered by the jury, but proposals should clearly offer compelling reasons for repetition.

Review and Upon Acceptance

How does the jury select pieces?

All submissions are juried together, and there are no strict rules for acceptance. The jury primarily looks for a combination of innovation and excellence. A longer list of traits the jury typically looks for includes originality, artistic achievement, technical accomplishment, technical innovation, production value, creativity, design, educational value, aesthetic appeal, community building, and social responsibility.

The reviews we received from the jury were highly positive and outstanding, and we still did not get accepted. Why is this?

Ideally, everyone would have a chance to present their best work at the conference. It would certainly make the selection process easier! Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Many great proposals do not make the cut because we lack rooms, resources, and schedule time. Here are some possible reasons for rejection:

The work is not sufficiently outstanding to justify its presentation length.

The submission did not show enough improvement over previous presentations.

The submission overlapped with better proposals in a similar area.

The submission overlapped with topics that have bigger anticipated attendance in a similar area.